Take Those Pictures

Daily Note

Every day, a photograph, a poem. A family picture popped up today as a memory in my iCloud. This one from the 1970s of my family: Bill, Sheri [me], Chuck, Mom Ruth, and Dad Charles. I am the only one left. I can’t call or visit or even drive by the family home [it burned down last year]. But I have the picture of this day in the back yard in front of the landlord’s garage [removed] probably as we headed to the zoo with the grandkids– my brother Chuck’s two daughters and my own two boys who got along with their shenanigans together as cousins who met but once a year.

So do take those family pictures. Our own blended family needs a new one since Covid prevented gatherings and now we have great-grandkids to include. A huge family picture would be wonderful about now.

Take those family pictures, or at least make a collage so you have them.

Poetry

Take Those Pictures

Every year
in the 70s
far-flung families
returned home
for that picture
the one you’ll cherish
when everyone is gone.

Sheri Edwards
07.22.23 204.365.23
Poetry/Photography [See-Frame-Focus]

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